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right after 9/11, several of us, a lot of us gathered at a mosque here here at usc, and i heard a sentence that changed my life. and it was this, to be religious in the 21st century is to be interreligious. and it is that dedication that draws me to eboo and the way he thinks. so, i'm going to apologize only once for an emotional about this man. if i get choked up your just say, chalk it up to that. but one of the great moments in this book is his telling about a genesis moment. so, eboo, would you? >> this is actually from and on 2010. it's august of that years from waking up at around 4 a.m. and i'm having my last meal before my prayers that begin the time of fasting. it's at that point that i'd like to, as muslims do, to read more from the garage or from rumi, or just additional time of censuring and meditation to god listens extra closely during those dawn ours. but instead, if people remember what was happening in august 2010, it was the crazy discourse were having around the ground zero mosque. and so i'm not reading rumi. i'm not reading the koran but i'm literally right wing hate h
right after 9/11, several of us, a lot of us gathered at a mosque here here at usc, and i heard a sentence that changed my life. and it was this, to be religious in the 21st century is to be interreligious. and it is that dedication that draws me to eboo and the way he thinks. so, i'm going to apologize only once for an emotional about this man. if i get choked up your just say, chalk it up to that. but one of the great moments in this book is his telling about a genesis moment. so, eboo, would...
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send us an e-mail and book tv and c-span.org or tweet us. >> the author of how to be black . howdy be black? >> it helps so much to be born black. i think that's the most reliable way of actually being black. the book does not convert you. it's not an advanced genetic modification program. it is more of a mental intellectual exercise in identity, storytelling, and clarity. >> one example of being black. >> well, the story of the book is mostly a memoir. i grew up in washington d.c. during the crack wars, the crackhead mayor, columbia heights before it got a metro station and the target. in that journey from very political black power family and the legacy of my ancestors through the crack wars, that is the backbone of the book. and there are lessons learned along the way, have to be the black friend, have to speak for all black people which are often asked to represent everybody we sort of kind of maybe look like. have to be the next black president which is very applicable during this particular season. this book contains those lessons plus interviews with some black experts
send us an e-mail and book tv and c-span.org or tweet us. >> the author of how to be black . howdy be black? >> it helps so much to be born black. i think that's the most reliable way of actually being black. the book does not convert you. it's not an advanced genetic modification program. it is more of a mental intellectual exercise in identity, storytelling, and clarity. >> one example of being black. >> well, the story of the book is mostly a memoir. i grew up in...
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>> guest: just the two of us. that's it. c-span: the--you also say that you had strong support from someplace in new york called hamilton college. >> guest: hamilton--i taught there for a year, and it was a wonderful place. that's actually where this all began. i--by--i'd left ucla as a post-doc and it was my first teaching job, and it's a wonderful liberal arts college in upstate new york. and i started presenting my ideas to students there about reagan and carrying big archival boxes around and starting some of the research. c-span: you mean they saw the boxes? >> guest: they saw--i couldn't bring the actual boxes but, you know, drafts of things or mainly typed scripts that, you know, were easy to take away and use for--in--in a more public setting. c-span: what's the reaction of the students when they see you working on this? >> guest: i now teach at carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh, and i've had great support from faculty and students. they've been supportive. they like it. they think it's entert--interesting. ma
>> guest: just the two of us. that's it. c-span: the--you also say that you had strong support from someplace in new york called hamilton college. >> guest: hamilton--i taught there for a year, and it was a wonderful place. that's actually where this all began. i--by--i'd left ucla as a post-doc and it was my first teaching job, and it's a wonderful liberal arts college in upstate new york. and i started presenting my ideas to students there about reagan and carrying big archival...
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for use, and they did. in fact it became impossible to use recreational vehicles and to go out and maintain the plans that became more onerous so we wound up giving goes up. now of course, when they want to put the solar installation out there and they say yes that sounds like a great idea and they talk about things like gentle rolling on the top of the cactus that to 100 years to grow back and they relocate the tortoise is even though the mortality rate when they move them as ridiculously high and of course if you did maliciously you would be in jail and that no longer matters because they want their solar fields. and the same is true since they happen to notice people don't about in the mojave desert so it is okay to run the power line through the state parks to get them to the city's whereas before this he couldn't even look at a state park was the idea of running power lines through it. without i'm going to turn this over to alex that will step us through the fallacies and the rise of the entire scienti
for use, and they did. in fact it became impossible to use recreational vehicles and to go out and maintain the plans that became more onerous so we wound up giving goes up. now of course, when they want to put the solar installation out there and they say yes that sounds like a great idea and they talk about things like gentle rolling on the top of the cactus that to 100 years to grow back and they relocate the tortoise is even though the mortality rate when they move them as ridiculously high...
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he joins us this week on "the communicators." mr. blum, why did you travel to milwaukee when you were researching "tubes"? >> guest: well, the big challenge for me at the beginning was to try to make our virtual world as tangible as possible, and when i found out one of the major maps of the internet called telegeography was actually printed at a big printing press in milwaukee, that they actually made the effort to travel there, to sort of go and watch this thing come off this giant school bus-sized machine, that seemed like a great way into the story of figuring out not only where the internet is, but also trying to sort of meditate a bit and come to terms with what is still physical about our virtual world. and it turned out that one thing that is still, of course, physical is very large printing presses and, strangely enough, very large printing presses that print maps of the internet. so i followed my map maker, a guy named marcus, to see this map actually come off the press. >> host: is there a center of the universe when it co
he joins us this week on "the communicators." mr. blum, why did you travel to milwaukee when you were researching "tubes"? >> guest: well, the big challenge for me at the beginning was to try to make our virtual world as tangible as possible, and when i found out one of the major maps of the internet called telegeography was actually printed at a big printing press in milwaukee, that they actually made the effort to travel there, to sort of go and watch this thing come...
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>> guest: that cloud is all of us. the cloud is the marketing term for the way in which the internet as a whole can offer business services and what that means more specifically perhaps is a large data center, a data warehouse. perhaps not and ashburn at the next town over but in the next town over it has to tether in and connect directly, as directly as possible to the distribution depot you might say of ashburn virginia. ashburn is a place where bandwidth is the most abundant and the cheapest. it's a place that the most direct connections to the most other places and when you are dealing with a cloud perhaps with either e-mail or your backup for some program you use to manage your salesforce or whatever it is, you wanted to operate absolutely as possible, as much like sitting on your own computer. and that means being as closely tied to major network hubs as possible. >> host: in our discussion the past half hour we have talked about generators and wires and rooms with air conditioners etc.. how green is the internet
>> guest: that cloud is all of us. the cloud is the marketing term for the way in which the internet as a whole can offer business services and what that means more specifically perhaps is a large data center, a data warehouse. perhaps not and ashburn at the next town over but in the next town over it has to tether in and connect directly, as directly as possible to the distribution depot you might say of ashburn virginia. ashburn is a place where bandwidth is the most abundant and the...
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we remember, a lot of us remember who strom thurmond was. strom thurmond was a 1948 presidential candidate. strom thurmond was one of the lead authors of the 1956 southern manifesto. this is the protest the supreme court decision in the brown v. board of education decision 1954. strom thurmond is a recordholder to this day of the longest one man filibuster. and again his work pashtun and the guinness book of world records, 24 hours and 18 minutes he spoke against the 1957 civil rights bill. we remember strom thurmond today as one of the last of the jim crow demagogues. and he was. he was that. he was one of the last jim crow demagogue. what we forget about thurmond is that he was also one of the first of the sun belt conservatives. what do i mean by that? what's a sun belt conservative? the sun belt, it's one of the big stories, one of the major stories in the history of 20th century american politics. and that is the flow of jobs, of industry, of resources and population from the states of the northeast and the midwest to the south and the
we remember, a lot of us remember who strom thurmond was. strom thurmond was a 1948 presidential candidate. strom thurmond was one of the lead authors of the 1956 southern manifesto. this is the protest the supreme court decision in the brown v. board of education decision 1954. strom thurmond is a recordholder to this day of the longest one man filibuster. and again his work pashtun and the guinness book of world records, 24 hours and 18 minutes he spoke against the 1957 civil rights bill. we...